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My Brother's Keeper

John Lithgow , Annette O'Toole , Glenn Jordan  |  PG-13 |  DVD
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  • Actors: John Lithgow, Annette O'Toole, Veronica Cartwright, Ellen Burstyn
  • Directors: Glenn Jordan
  • Writers: Gregory Goodell
  • Producers: Glenn Jordan
  • Format: NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: January 25, 2010
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B0008FXT46
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,199 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • For more information about "My Brother's Keeper" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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My Brother's Keeper is a moving drama, based on a true story, about a family's struggle with HIV and a community that rallied around them with emotional and financial support when their struggle took them to the courts. John Lithgow plays twin brothers, Bob and Tom Bradley, both of them well-loved schoolteachers in a community on Long Island. Tom, who is HIV positive, is offered a unique opportunity to have a bone marrow transplant from his brother to keep the HIV from progressing. Although it is unknown if the procedure will succeed, doctors believe the chances are good because of the brothers' identical genetic make-up. Just before the scheduled date of the procedure, however, Tom's insurance company announces it will not cover the procedure. When the brothers decide to go to court to fight the insurance company, they know that Tom's illness will generate publicity, and possibly prejudice. But instead of hate mail, Tom receives nothing but support from the entire community. Tom's case becomes a cause celebre and, in part with money raised by Tom's students, friends, and neighbors, they win their court case four months later. The drama chronicles this extraordinary fight for life and justice, and the warm-hearted support a community gives to thank a great teacher and friend.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent AIDS drama about early 1990's, May 23, 2007
This review is from: My Brother's Keeper (DVD)
I've been teaching a course on the AIDS Pandemic at Dowling College on Long Island for 10 years. I use this film in the class because it focuses on an incident in the early 1990's that impacted many people in the central Long Island region (where the College is located)--in other words, for us, it's a local story. Beyond that, this is a finely acted, well-scripted family drama that addresses many issues--from discrimination to lack of communication and its effects on a family's emotional, spiritual, and physical health. John Lithgow does his usual excellent job portraying twin brothers, and Ellen Burstyn's performance as the twin's mother is also riveting. This is an excellent introduction to the pre-drug cocktail era of AIDS, when AZT was about the best hope there was. But what could be bleak turns into a wonderful story of human courage and proves, once again, that you don't need a scatillion dollars of special effects to make a touching film.
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